Design Manifesto QBN Census
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- vaxorcist0
Ok.. in all honesty.... this is not such a crazy argument in my world anymore... it was a bit in the early 90's.... I knew people who thought Ralph Nader was a sellout....
I used to teach in 2 art schools.... and I read and re-read the Manifesto in various versions.... over time, and as student loans got larger, students took it less stridently, and/or at least less either/or like in their thinking... this was refreshing to me, and/or it seems design student culture grew up a bit...
i.e. you DON'T have to be a broke-ass ethically pure designer doing ads for organic dance troupes vs a sell-out doing credit card promo junk mail... there really is not just an in-between, but probably a third way....
It does seem that Gen Y is less ideological-warfare oriented than some of the early Gen X'ers I knew in art school, including me..
I bring up the Portlandia thing not as a joke, but as a semi-joke, showing the lifestyle that would be emulated by many of the people I went to school with.... a life that's not quite possible for anyone with a huge student loan.... unless they're willing to default and live off-grid for a while...
- I'll admit it, the Carson thing also got me back to the PTSD of 90's art school ideological warfare...vaxorcist
- And I probably reverted to my 18 year old punk-ass self...strange how growing up feels...vaxorcist
- Portlandia. don't know it. I assume FTF is thinking beyond "broke-ass ethically pure designer doing ads for organic dance troupes"********